# stell
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɛl/
* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Etymology 1

From Middle English stellen, from Old English stellan (“to give a place to, set, place”), from Proto-West Germanic *stalljan (“to put, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stellen (“to set, put”), dated Low German stellen (“to put, place, fix”), German stellen (“to set, place, provide”), Old English steall (“position, place”). More at stall.

#### Verb

stell (third-person singular simple present stells, present participle stelling, simple past and past participle stelled or stold)
* (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.
** 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him.
* (transitive, obsolete) To portray; delineate; display.
** 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, lines 1443–44:To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stelled.
** 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 24”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart […]

### Etymology 2

Alteration of stall, after the verb to stell.

#### Noun

stell (plural stells)
* (archaic) A place; station.
* A stall; a fold for cattle.
* (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
* (Scotland) A still.
** 1786, Robert Burns, The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer:Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle; Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle; An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle, Seizin a stell, Triumphant crushin't like a mussel, Or limpet shell!
** 1791, Robert Burns, Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation:The English stell we could disdain, Secure in valour's station; But English gold has been our bane— Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

##### Related terms

* stall

### Anagrams

* Tells, tells

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Verb

stell
* singular imperative of stellen

## Icelandic
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish stel.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɛlː/
* Rhymes: -ɛlː

#### Noun

stell n (genitive singular stells, nominative plural stell)
* service (set of matching dishes or untensils)
* set of false teeth

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Deverbal from stella (“to potter about, to tinker”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɛtl/
* Rhymes: -ɛtl

#### Noun

stell n (genitive singular stells, no plural)
* pottering, tinkering, idle work
    Synonyms: föndur, bauk, dund, dútl

##### Declension
## Plautdietsch
### Adjective

stell
* quiet, silent, still
* calm, peaceful

## Yola
### Noun

stell
* Alternative form of sthill (“handle”)
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:An broughet ee stell, ing a emothee knaghane.And broke the handle in a pismire-hill.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88